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oo1 ,

I think that's partly to show the point, median is a lower than something equivalent to mean, indicating the high skewess of the distribution.

The gdp vs wage angle is adding another point about about unearned income, rent and interest.
I'd be slightly worried at not provisioning for fixed capital stock formation out of GDP - you do want to produce some of that stuff was well as consumption.

Of course you can argue about who is best placed to own the capital too - as well as how the fk it can be measured in a market price system. (I already see a LTOV comment further down).

What do you think the Great Filter is?

The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...

oo1 ,

I think it is in the drake equation effectively, it factors into the length of time that the civilization might send and receive detectable signals - It doesn't say why the Civilisation might collapse, but the planet becoming uninhabitable is surely one reason. On wikipedia for Drake Equation the Carl Sagan specification of L is in terms of the "fraction of planetary lifetime".

I think a missing factor might be how directional transmission and receiving is, if we can't broadcast to and listen to the whole sky equally then we might have a 1/r-cubed type issue with the chances of both listening and transmitting with enough strength/energy at the same time.

oo1 ,

I think most lifeforms will have more pressing matters than wasting large amounts of time an energy blasting signals in to space for no reason, or listening to the sky.

Maybe those civilizations that waste more energy chasing aliens die off sooner due to wasting resources on sci-fi bullshit and ignoring their real problems at home.

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    • oo1 ,

    "G/year"
    "GtCOe"
    Be careful of feeding the "science is wrong" trolls by misrepresenting units of measure.

    oo1 ,

    Honestly, that unit reads like bullshit to me, when stated out of context- I did used to work in energy and emission forecasting, but never that deeply into the academics so feel free to disregard my comments on that basis - we relied on scientific advisors for that stuff.

    Personally I'd hope that all the papers quoting such a thing should have a simpler literal maybe step by step explaination of what the fuck they're trying to measure . But i really did hate academia generally for its introverted tendencies, I don't think they write those papers to inform oiks like me.

    If the unit is supposed to be a scale for the long term average net flow of greenhouse gases from the planet's surface into the atmosphere, then that is a complex thing; I think it deserves a load of words to explain the what is being described - more than a few of letters and numbers.

    Here's my attempt at what I think the abbreviation is trying to say:
    "Average mass of greenhouse gas emissions with equivalent potential to warm the planet as a gigatonne of carbon dioxide, less any amounts absorbed back into the earth, per year over the last 100 years (GtCO2e)"
    I dont feel the "y-1" adds anything since the unit is dimensionally a number of tonnes - unless I've misinterpreted -which seems likely.

    One shouldn't just use an abbreviation if one want's to communicate to non-specialists.
    I'd always advise to spell it out in real words and sentences. If complex, try to break it down into simple parts.
    Then after a full explanation, you can later reply on the abbreviation - for example in a graph label.

    If the measurement or estimate is important, then the audience deserves enough words to explain it.
    If the measurement or estimate does not come with enough words to explain it then in my opinion the author doesn't care enough to try to explain it so it can't be that important. It may be just a rhetorical grph or it just looks good - no real meaning.

    The only exception for me is the "standard units", metre, kilogramme etc. as we can rely on S.I. for those standard measures overing the main material dimensions.

    Look it proably really is all just me being an asshole, but I get very sick of hearing vague, imprecise bullshit like "Carbon" being used as a term for "greenhouse gas emissions". I did have a job where the difference between C and CO2 caused a factor of 0.278 discrepancy in some arguably important figures. High school fucking chemistry. Those people should have known better and resolved their unit of measure ahead of time.

    I get that some people had a hard time in school, but I think it should be about trying to help them understand more and learn , not dumbing stuff down to imprecise terms because we're so scared of confusing someone . If a person doesn't know the basics, say the difference between an element, an atom and a molecule; we should help them learn that before going on at them about complex atmospheric concentrations and global warming equivalent potentials.

    oo1 ,

    Cool, that looks great to me.

    oo1 ,

    this dude claims he made a cargo bike on his kitchen table.
    https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=SDlnDEXlfm8&t=56

    oo1 ,

    "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”

    oo1 ,

    Someone has to build quite a few more power stations though.
    Assuming you're talking about swapping a large fraction of the car fleet to EV, not just a few here and there.
    That's a substantial increase in total electricity demand. Enough to radically impact the load on the grid.

    And if you end up burning natual gas / coal to meet the marginal increase in demand - as would seem fairly likely - then much of the thermal conversion losses you're saving in the higehr efficieny motor just get shifted to the furnace in the power station and transmission/distribution system; so that can erode some of the efficiency benefits.

    I guess you could require for every new EV that they also install roftop solar PV and basically buy a spare battery of near same capacity as the car. that might push the up front and periodic replacement cost a bit though - quite nice for the running costs i guess.

    Another good alternative is to try to convince people to get together and share their electric motors in things callled trains and do as many trips in those as possible - that's not too popular with most people unless the road congestion is really bad. Something to do with sharing being communism i think,

    oo1 ,

    And flood loads of valleys to create massive hydro power stations?
    Norway's low density gives it plentry of cheap renewable electricity (per person).
    In my country we have loads of people living in valleys, so we'd probably not get away with building that much hydro generation capacity.

    Although there's a whole area called the "lake district" that is literally asking for it.

    oo1 ,

    Yeah, i think it is more like thousands of years.
    wiki origin of species (Darwin)

    ". . .. plant breeding, going back to ancient egypt"

    But breeding and GMO are different tech entirely, even if they might have similar results.

    Breeding plants probably started before egypt (they just the earliest with decipherable writing ) even just as an unintended biproduct of agriculture, just planting stuff together then weeding out the plants with less desirable yield, or selecting seed from the most productive plants for next year would do it. t may not hve been conscious or scientific, but it would have been effective over the generations.

    oo1 ,

    Typical ITPS comment!
    /s

    oo1 ,

    i think hi res is for professional work.
    If you're going to process, modify, mix, distort the audio in a studio, you probably want the higher bit depth or rate to start with, in case you amplify or distort something and end up with an unintended artefact that is human audible.
    But the output sound can be down rated back to human levels before final broadcast.

    O couse if a marketing person finds out there is a such a thing as "professional quality". . . See also
    "military spec", "aerospace grade"

    oo1 ,

    Ah yeah, just choose a different energy souce. Simples.

    Have you seen the growth in % of renewable (incl, nuc biofuel and waste) electricity generation over the past 30 years.
    (36% i in 1990 , dropped to about 33% in late 2000s up to 38% recently) this is global, IEA figures.

    There have been two years since 1990 when renewable electricity output has grown faster than total electricity demand.
    2008/9 recession and 2020 covid.
    The only way renewables will come close to meeting current electricity consumption is actually to start reducing those demands.

    If we start transerffing gas( domestic heating), and petrol( low-capacity road transportation) onto the electricitry grid then the scale and speed of renewables needs to ramp up inconcievably quickly - it has grown fast over the past decade, but it hasn't been cheap nor has it been fast enough to keep up with current demands.

    TBH I don't know where AI lines up next to EVs in scale of potential extra demand, probably lower but still an added demand (unless it can substitute for other stuff and improve efficiency somehow).

    Electricity source is not really a choice, it is resource and tech constrained many sources are needed; the cheapest fuels will continue to be in the mix used so long as demand keeps increasing so fast.

    Maybe, If you ran all AI in peooles houses in cold countries in winter, it'd substitute for heating - that'd be one way it could reduce its impact. Or maybe it can get its act together and spark widespread, frequent, deep, long lasting recessions in economic activity.

    oo1 ,

    Perpetual motion machines are one of the mothers of all snake oil.
    Maybe AI can turn base metals into gold too.
    Do these AIs even really have a demonstrable understanding of thermodynamics yet?
    It needs to prove itself with a usable output for a clear observabe application on a small scale scale before anyone should start chucking vast amounts of energy at it in hope of what it can "maybe" do.
    I'd much rather chuck all that energy into trials of tokamaks or something like that.

    oo1 ,

    I think the demonic elephant already tied them to the middle track.

    oo1 ,

    You're a "domestic terrorist" and most likely already tied down to the middle track. You might also get tied down to the top rail - it depends slightly what you yell when attack.

    But if that elepant and donkey are capable of tying down all those other people, they're not going to let you derail them.

    oo1 ,

    no

    oo1 ,

    lemmingnade

    oo1 ,

    https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/39029/are-schwarzenegger-libraries-fact-or-fiction

    oo1 ,

    opening scene of the terminator , 2029 i think.

    oo1 ,

    I like the infinite battery life, massive fold out screen size, and great daytime contrast ratio and glare filter.
    regularly for hiking.

    oo1 ,

    Gravity makes balls.
    If you had enough soup it'd conform to the shape of earth.

    Noah's ark myth actually originated from stories about a giant prehistoric crouton.

    oo1 ,

    Does emulating via waydroid not work for android games?
    I don't really do android games so not sure how well waydroid performs for that type of stuff - but it seems okay for a few android apps i've tried.

    oo1 ,

    xorg.confusion

    oo1 ,

    fair point, i'm very used to just using f-droid, aurora, or sideloading apks from dubious places, for my phone and tablet, that i completely forget how much android stuff "needs" google services.

    I got netflix running without google play, i think installed from aurora store. It needed a script to install widevide DRM that seemed to work.

    But I can imagine things like games being more of a pain especially with online.

    oo1 ,

    You can search "nvme enclosure" on ebay if you want to go that route.
    Just get the right "M-key" / "E-key" for enclosure to match the drive.

    I've done ok with fairly cheap no brand ones 10-20 USDish - maybe a year or so regular use.
    For my laptop i have a slightly bulkier one that also has 2x usb-A ports so it expands connectivity too.

    Don't use sd card / usb flash unless it's only option (mobile phoine / tablet).

    oo1 ,

    I'm going to guess it wasn't a decision, so much as tech availability and pricing.
    radar, sonar, more powerful boats with bigger trawl nets.

    If they'd had that stuff earlier it'd be the same tragedy of the same commons.

    oo1 ,

    Yes I was doing similar a few weeks ago.
    I was investigating how to get netflix app running on linux, tried a Windows VM, basically stopped at roughly this screen due to bile reaching my mouth.

    Ended up installing Zen kernel, switching to KDE(Wayland) and using Waydroid.
    Far easier than having to read those words or figure out what you actually have to do. I'd assume you have to regularly regedit often to keep this shit under control.

    On the wierd condescending tone I also noticed a few years ago at work (compulsory MS) the MS programs started being very rude and overstepping the boundaries of informality:
    "Want to save this file?"
    "Fuck you excel, you can't talk to me like that.
    You think I'd ever be friendly with someone who so wantonly fucks up my data types?"

    They must think stockholm syndrome has spread to most of the user base.

    oo1 ,

    A complete sentence like that would nornally have a "subject" - in this case it should refer to me in the "second person" by using "you". Failing to refer to me as the subject makes the sentence incomplete and seem informal.
    The sentence literally does not respect me.

    Such informality would usually only be used in conversation with a friend or acquaintance.
    It's jarring to me to see that in written English, especialy coming from a computer.

    A more formal and complete sentence would be:
    "Do you want to save this file?"
    That's formal and not rude, but if you want to be more polite you'd say :
    "Would you like to save this file?"

    I can't really explain why "Would you like . . .?" is more polite than "Do you want . . . ?", it just is in my experience.
    Perhaps that's not globally true though many might disagree.

    FYI since you're asking about English, "no rude" would normally be written as "non-rude" or you can just use the opposite word "polite".

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